By Adam Pagnucco. This year’s election cycle is the first one in which public financing is being used in MoCo’s county-level races. That is one of many reasons why this…
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Top MoCo Fundraisers, January 2018
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By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, we have run several reports on fundraising through January 2018. This post combines all of our data and presents the top 20 fundraisers in MoCo so…
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By Adam Pagnucco. District 20 Everybody in this district is broke, including the incumbents. Gone are the days when Jamie Raskin, Sheila Hixson, Heather Mizeur and Tom Hucker were raising…
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By Adam Pagnucco. In addition to the wild and woolly Executive and Council At-Large races, MoCo has two competitive District County Council elections. Let’s have a look. Council District 1…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Now to the swarming Council At-Large race, a fascinating contest with a cast of candidates exceeding the population of several small island nations. In accordance with our…
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Public Financing Update: January 2, 2018
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By Adam Pagnucco. Happy New Year, folks! After a relatively quiet period in the fall, December saw a number of applications for public matching funds from county candidates participating in…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Former Council Member Phil Andrews’s public financing system is in use for the first time during this election cycle. It has already changed MoCo’s political landscape, with…
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Candidates, Hug Your Treasurer
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By Adam Pagnucco. Political campaigns have all kinds of characters in them. There are the campaign managers, the best of whom are data nerds, bartenders, therapists and trouble shooters all…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Council At-Large candidate Brandy Brooks, who is participating in MoCo’s public financing system, would like to help natural disaster victims. That’s a laudable goal. But she is…
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By Adam Pagnucco. This morning, we posted preliminary fundraising totals for candidates in public financing. But one of those reports was wrong because of a problem with the State Board…